Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?

Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?
Author: David Mathews
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1603062602

One of the most compelling issues in public education involves what it means for schools to be public. Are they public in funding or public in oversight and control? Are they public in the values they convey or in the standards they set? Are they public in deciding curriculum or only in access to space? David Matthews probes these issues in 19th century Alabama in ways that no one else has attempted. And he provides lessons from the past that can inform the present and future.

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Eric Ed541810
Author: Eric
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014357335

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History of Public School Education in Alabama. Bulletin, 1915, No. 12. Whole Number 637

History of Public School Education in Alabama. Bulletin, 1915, No. 12. Whole Number 637
Author: Stephen B. Weeks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1915
Genre:
ISBN:

Just 60 years ago the State of Alabama made its first formal essay toward a State-supported and State-administered public-school system. During this period there have been many ups and downs of educational fortune, but there has been progress. This bulletin describes the main characteristics of the educational experience of Alabama over the last 60 years. This is the second in the series of brief histories of education in some of the States of the Union which the author has prepared for the bureau for the purpose of providing accurate information for the future historian, and the still more important purpose of helping those who are now working for the improvement of education in the States. An addendum, bibliography, and index are included. Individual sections contain footnotes. (Contains 5 tables.) [Best copy available has been provided.].